Descr. Stem short and branching. Leaves obovate, 
flat, with a slender recurved mucro, a prominent middle 
rib, and a few obscure veins, stellato-pubescent and glau- 
cous on both sides, attenuated into a long petiole. Pedun- 
cle erect, round at the base, above compressed, twice or 
thrice dichotomously corymbose, branches with two wings, 
the subdivisions near the top secund and erect, and the 
ultimate branches triquetrous. Bractee reddish, pubescent, 
sheathing, blunt. Calyx twice as long as the bractezx, 
blunt, crenate, purple. Corolla white, funnel-shaped, claws 
long, lamine obcordate. Stamens about as long as the 
corolla. Styles very slender. Germen green, glabrous. 
Graham. 
Fig. 1. Flower and Bracteas :—magnified. 
